Now that Krystal and I were once more alone, I marshalled my thoughts and tried to read into my own desires. I looked over to her low cage and saw that she slowly circled on all fours, trapped, blind, and deaf within her horrid rubber encasement. Each time she turned toward me, I saw the gleaming ring at her snout, but what shocked me, was that a chain had now been locked to it also and this led to the upper bars of the cage where her back-of-the-collar leash was also locked! The chains length was sufficient that she could circle about, but far too short to allow her to lower her head closer than twenty-five cm above the floor of the cage! Occasionally while she was circling, it tugged firmly at her snout, jerking cruelly at the flesh imprisoned within her masks, and she would shuffle for
